Re: [maildropl] request: maildrop and dovecot integration

[Sam V. <mr...@co...>]

Micah Anderson writes:

>
> Back in 2009, Max posted to this list a patch to maildrop that would
> provide dovecot integration to maildrop[0]. Since that time, he has
> continued to maintain that patch for new versions of maildrop, as they
> are released[1].
>
> I would like to request that the maildrop developers consider accepting
> this patch, if it is suitable code. It provides very useful
> functionality and works great.
>
> Thank you for your consideration in this matter,
> Micah
>
>
> 0. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.mail.maildrop/4771
> 1. http://wiki.dovecot.org/maildrop

What this patch does is take a large chunk of code out of courier-authlib,  
add a small amount of dovecot-specific logic, and include it into maildrop's  
source.

A very large portion of code ends up being duplicated here. This is not a  
good way to do thing, from a long-term maintenance perspective.

Maildrop already has an authentication plugin – the courier-authlib hook.  
The right way to implement this functionality would be to add a Dovecot  
module to courier-authlib. I would be generally agreeable to this approach.  
In addition to mailrop, this would also allow sqwebmail to leverage this  
functionality too.